page_title: Parkridge, Knoxville
section_title: Park City
hierarchical_section_title: Parkridge, Knoxville / History / Park City
caption_attribution_description: English: The Park City Junior High building (523 N. Bertrand), now Park Place condominiums, in the Parkridge neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
context_page_description: Parkridge is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located off Magnolia Avenue east of the city's downtown area. Developed as a streetcar suburb for Knoxville's professional class in the 1890s, the neighborhood was incorporated as the separate city of Park City in 1907, and annexed by Knoxville in 1917. In the early 1900s, the neighborhood provided housing for workers at the nearby Standard Knitting Mills factory.
  In 1990, over 600 houses in Parkridge were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Park City Historic District. The neighborhood contains one of the largest concentrations of houses designed by George Franklin Barber, a mail-order architect known nationwide for his ornate Victorian house plans.
context_section_description: Around 1888, the Edgewood Land and Improvement Company initiated the development of Parkridge, namely with the division of lots in what is now the western part of the neighborhood.  Streets in Parkridge still roughly follow the gridlike pattern laid out by this company and other developers during this period.  Other developments included the Poplar Springs subdivision, established by Preston Blang in the vicinity of what is now Linden and Bertrand, and Elmwood, in the vicinity of what is now Woodbine and Boruff.  A black community was developed in the area of Adams, Dodson and Nichols.
  One of the partners in this company was architect George Franklin Barber, who would eventually become known nationwide for his catalog designs.  Barber designed numerous houses in the new subdivision, including his own house, which still stands at 1635 Washington Avenue.  Barber lived in this house until 1895, and his company's draftsmen continued boarding at the house until the early 1900s.  The designs of several Barber houses along Washington and Jefferson avenues were featured in Barber's catalogs, which were sold worldwide over the subsequent two decades.
  The various new subdivisions along Park Avenue incorporated as Park City in 1907, with W. R. Johnson serving as mayor.  The new city had a population of 7,000, and its new school, Park City High School, had an enrollment of over 1,000 students, making it one of the largest in the state (the school building was designed by Barber and his new partner, R. F. Graf).  The city benefited from the three national expositions held at Chilhowee Park, namely the Appalachian Expositions of 1910 and 1911, and the National Conservation Exposition of 1913.  In 1917, Park City was annexed by Knoxville.
caption: Park Place condominiums, originally Park City Junior High, built in 1927 and designed by Baumann and Baumann; renovated by Kristopher Kendrick in the 1990s
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